~ Images and Impressions

The Playboy Interview ~ Gary Oldman

It’s like the old saying about mediocrity: The mediocre are always at their best. They never let you down. Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. And what passes for music—it’s all on that plateau. Who’s the hero for young people today? Some idiot who can’t fucking sing or write or who’s shaking her ass and twerking in front of 11-year-olds.

I have two teenage sons and they occasionally turn me on to stuff—Arcade Fire, hip-hop or whatever. I go, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’ And I do watch television. I’m a huge fan of long-form TV. Mad Men. I loved True Detective; Matthew McConaughey gets better and better. Boardwalk Empire, The Americans, House of Cards—oh God, I loved it. It makes me want to create a show and sit back and get all that mailbox money.

Thoroughly enjoyed the read. Nice to learn of another Hollywood Libertarian, and one is who is not afraid to say what he thinks.

"Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form, creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work. Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs." ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose — that it may violate property instead of protecting it — then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious. To know this, it is hardly necessary to examine what transpires in the French and English legislatures; merely to understand the issue is to know the answer." ~ Frederic Bastiat

"Howard Roark laughed." ~ Ayn Rand

“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.” ~ Victor Hugo

"Now the days they are unwinding like an alarm clock, and the drift it is as steady as it is strong..." ~ Matthew Ryan